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I was born in 81, so I get lumped in as a millennial AND a gen-Xer AND an 80s kid AND a 90s kid... Anyone I try to have a discussion with assumes I'm wrong because I'm either too young or too old to understand. People older than me think I'm a most leftist bleeding heart liberal that has ever existed, but people younger than me think I'm a hard line conservative half the time. Quite frankly it's exhausting.
Born in 80. Share the feeling. We are called xennials. And it's unnerving... sometimes.
Don't be unnerved by our superior life experience!
Superior... Well. I don't miss the smell of smoke everywhere. But I do miss the slower news cycle. And not having to grow up with any media that try's to tell me everybody is everybody's enemy.
Fucking same. But hey, at least for a few more months, I'm 42, so I got that going for me.
You probably started remembering stuff in '84 and were 9 in '90, so you qualify as both an 80s and 90s kid.
To be a 90s kid you had to have been a kid in the 90s, not a baby. I'm a 80s baby, and a 90s kid.
My favorite I've heard is a friend made the distinction of Elder Millennial: Old enough to remember life pre-internet, young enough to still be relevant.
Considering Boomers still run the world, I wish that were true.
Only because everyone else does shit at voting. There's only 75 million boomers left in the US, and millions of those are too bedridden or too mentally incapable to vote. There's a lot more people in the 18 to 60 crowd than there in in the 60+ crowd.
83 here. We're a bridge generation.
We were in high school by the time the internet really started picking up, but we're exposed to tech early enough to learn it.
We also had much jankier software. I'm finding that the kids coming out of college now in non-tech fields are less tech-literate than 10-20 years ago because all the smart devices they've grown up on just do everything for them.
It feels like a good place to be.
At what age do you think one becomes irrelevant? Around the time your kids are out of the house?
Me: I try not to gatekeep.
Also me: ☝🏼 (see meme)
I don't think it's special to be a 90's kid, and nothing to really be proud of and everything. But when someone born in 98 or 99 says they are a 90's kid... That's even weirder. You were just barely aware of your surroundings for this "glorious years".
90s kids got some pretty unique stuff. We were around pre and post internet. We lived through the yo-yo resurgence. We had the absolute golden years of American kids cartoons. We grew up as kids without cell phones, but were still young enough to be tech literate. Last generation that grew up with "come home when the street lights come on", and we remember 9/11.
Being born in '85, I guarantee I have more vivid memories of the 90's than someone born in '95.
1992 here and I never really think of myself as a 90s kid. All the things I remember happened in the 00s.
i mean that's what "X kid" means. usually if you were born in a decade you're the next decade's "kid".
1993. What I know about the 90s is what I learned about it once I achieved self-awareness well into the 2000s
That's ridiculous, 1995 and up kids still remember CRT monitors, weird ball mice, green glow in the dark toys/hats/shoes, VHS tapes, polaroid cameras, all the girls on TV having a perm, etc.
My grandparents had an 8 track collection. That doesn't make me a 60s kid.
What's the difference between 95-96 and 93-94? They all don't remember most of the 90s.
Old enough to play Ocarina of Time when it came out.
Or at least old enough to play it at your cousin's house and ask your mom for it for christmas because you really wanted it but she wouldn't buy it for you because she was in full 90's helicopter parent mode and thought it looked too scary. I'm sure that's a universal experience.
This
Still remember staying up till midnight on new years watching my brother play, he said I could have a turn in the morning. I did not get that turn in the morning.
“No mom, it’s not scary at all!”
redead scream
Edit: ReDead! Took me a long time to remember what those scary mofos are called!
OP was born in 93-94 and wants to still be included.
To me, being a Millennial to me means you remember 9/11. If you don't, then you're Gen Z.
The Oregon Trail generation might remember Challenger and the fall of the Berlin Wall and Rodney King, but not Reagan being shot.
What if I don't remember 9/11 (because my teachers and parents deliberately didn't tell me what was happening) but remember the Oregon trail?
‘95 here. Never heard anyone my age claim they were a 90s kid. Sis is ‘93, I don’t think she considered herself one either.
Born in '72 here. What is this attention to generations and acknowledgement of existence you speak of? Your words are strange and foreign to me.
Don't you have a mortgage to pay off? Hush hush to work, and leave the internet to us. Doesn't matter if you were in some usenet mailing groups already, when most people couldn't type on a keyboard.
Being an elder zoomer be like:
As a late GenX 90s kid: Fuck you for forgetting us AGAIN.
But this specifically is calling out getting the title of millennial, why would you expect gen X to be a part of the meme?
I read an article that basically said we give up on trying to categorize you guys (97), you're just "transitionals". Not millennial or gen z. And honestly I get that. I only remember 9/11 because of my mother's reaction. I grew up in a weird phase for tech. And I don't feel like I belong to either group.
So I think they cracked the code!
"Weird phase for tech" is a nice euphemism for "knows what casettes are, but didn't have to put them into computers anymore."
I agree though that it is crazy. I remember it being a big thing for teenagers being 14,15 when i was 7 or 8 to get their own mobile phone. The kids born in 2001 onwards often had their first smartphone at 8 or 9
I was born in 1980. I refuse to be in any generation, I just was born in 1980.
Wait another decade and "90s kid" won't be a title anyone wants to claim.
You're too young if you care.
If you remember 9/11 you're a 90's kid. If not, welcome to Zoomer gang -- perspective of 02 kid